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...what a tangled web they weave. Last week Ticketmaster sued Microsoft Corp., charging the software titan with "electronic piracy" for offering an Internet link to the ticket agent's Website without permission. The suit rocks the very foundation of the Internet: the unhindered cross-linking of related sites. Microsoft launched the first of a series of local Internet guides to the arts, Seattle Sidewalk, with a Ticketmaster link that allowed customers to buy event tickets via computer, bypassing Ticketmaster's home page. Sales soared, but Ticketmaster was unappreciative. Microsoft ought to add an irony link; it was the Seattle band...
While Europa may be the solar system's most promising Petri dish, it is by no means the only one. Saturn's Titan, larger than both Mercury and Pluto, has an atmosphere fully 60% denser than Earth's, forming a sort of photochemical haze that appears to be full of the stuff of prebiology. The problem is that Titan is cold. With temperatures hovering near -290[degrees]F and no signs yet of significant heat to drive chemical reactions, the moon could be awash in organics that are nevertheless unable to combine in biologically useful ways...
...expect fantastic chemistry on Titan," says astronomer Steven Squyres of Cornell University. "I don't expect a trace of life." Others aren't so sure; if there's lightning in the Titanian atmosphere, it could energize organic molecules in a hurry. "I would be surprised if there is life on Titan," says astronomer Toby Owen of the University of Hawaii, "but we've been surprised by the solar system before...
...system still to come. Next fall NASA plans to launch the new Cassini-Huygens spacecraft on a seven-year odyssey to Saturn. In addition to making at least 36 orbital slalom runs through five of Saturn's inner moons, the ship will fire off a probe that will puncture Titan's cloud cover, parachute to its surface and send environmental readings back to Earth...
Though Arledge's move upstairs was carefully couched with paeans to continuity and the sort of praise due a network-news titan, TIME has learned that the executive shift was accompanied by considerable angst. Arledge's contract includes a clause that allows his network bosses, if they wish, to move him this June into the largely ceremonial position of chairman and to appoint a new president who would not report to Arledge. But when Robert Iger, president of ABC Inc., decided he wanted to make such a change, Arledge fought it, arguing that he was still...